Istanbul, Turkey
15th century BCE
Rome, Italy
13th century BCE
Luxor, Egypt
c. 1970 BCE
Rome, Italy
1400 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
1400 BCE
Aswan, Egypt
4th century BCE
Abu Simbel, Egypt
13th century BCE
Edfu, Egypt
237-57 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
16th century BCE
Kom Ombo, Egypt
180-47 BC
Luxor, Egypt
c. 1970 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
20th century BCE
Luxor, Egypt
1350 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
16th century BCE
Aswan, Egypt
30 BCE
Aswan, Egypt
2700-2000 BCE
Edfu, Egypt
3000-2500 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
1900-1800 BCE
Luxor, Egypt
2700-2000 BCE
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.